Brexit
Is Boris Johnson braced for a Brexit deal?
Prime Minister’s Questions may have proved a rather dreary affair this week but there was one reply that has become a source…
Emmanuel Macron’s great Brexit gamble
There is an intriguing pattern in our relationship with European integration. A Frenchman vetoed our attempt to join. A Frenchman…
More Brexit talks are the worst possible outcome for the economy
Currency speculators at some of the hedge funds in Mayfair may be feeling quietly pleased.Trade experts will be relieved that…
No deal won't 'get Brexit done'
Brexit talks between the two sides are deadlocked. Boris Johnson’s latest bid to ‘divide and conquer’ – pledging to visit Paris…
Portrait of the week: Vaccine shots, Brexit stutters and a frosty reception for the royals
Home The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine began, rather slowly, to be given to some old people in hospital and health workers.…
The deal-or-no-deal debate is different this time
When a deadline is missed for Brexit negotiations, it is tempting to think there will be another chance to keep…
How to solve Brexit's ratchet clause problem
At the moment, the biggest single obstacle in the Brexit talks is the so-called ‘ratchet clause’. This is what Boris…
If Boris doesn’t blink over Brexit, Starmer becomes unelectable
If it’s No Deal, then it will usher in a crisis that will highlight the leader’s negative baggage and remind…
Why Boris Johnson can’t sign the current Brexit deal
The negotiations are still underway in Brussels. But both the UK and the EU are now talking far more openly…
Does the EU understand what sovereignty really means?
The UK never tried to have our constitution written in one big session. We made it up by responding to…
We should not accept Brexit in name only
Given the seemingly highly technical nature of the current negotiations, members of the public who have normal lives to lead…
Deal or no-deal? The choice is Boris Johnson's
If you voted for Brexit, did you think it was a state of pure and perfect national independence, or did…
Can Boris's dash to Brussels secure a Brexit deal?
The upshot of Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen’s conversation this evening is that the pair will meet in…
Inside the no-deal reasonable worst case scenario
I’ve been passed the government’s ‘reasonable worst case scenario planning assumptions to support civil contingencies planning for the end of…
The texture of our country is changing before our eyes
On Saturday night we sat around the kitchen table, my family and I, and had a takeaway from the Turkish…
Will we end up with a Paphlagonian Brexit deal?
Freed from the bonds of the European Union, Britain is now in a position to sign whatever trade deal it…
Brexit talks go down to the wire
After the past few years, it is hard to take Brexit deadlines seriously; they have a tendency to always slide…
Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?
Today the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to clinically authorise a vaccine protecting against Covid-19, after…
Left behind: how Labour betrayed its base
How Labour betrayed its base
China has a friend in Jesus
Last week, I wrote about ‘Frost & Lewis’ (David and Oliver), leaders of our country’s team at the Brexit negotiations,…
Letters: Solidarity is the best thing for Scotland
SNP sophistry Sir: Andrew Wilson (‘Scot free’, 21 November) poses the question: ‘What if the case for independence was a…
Are our churches safe from Justin Welby?
‘Frost & Lewis’. It sounds like a programme amalgamating two of the most famous TV detectives. The former diplomat, Lord…
Scotland can’t afford to remain part of the Union
Staying in the Union is now riskier than independence
The march of the fascist mushrooms
It has been too long coming. While conscientious and decent liberals have tried to explain why, to their horror, millions…
Brexit Britain will be the winner in the EU’s war on Joe Biden
A new era of transatlantic cooperation will have begun. The United States will pivot towards Brussels. The trade wars will…
